Device Management API

[weaponx]

The purpose of this UDF is native device management via the Windows Setup API. When complete it will provide most of the functionality of Devcon and Device Manager. With enough interest I hope to have a final version submitted into the standard UDF's.

DeviceAPI_Example.au3

Updated 2/2/2010

DeviceAPI_GUI Example.au3

Updated 2/2/2010

DeviceAPI.au3 - Alpha v6

Updated 2/2/2010

Current functions:

_DeviceAPI_ClassArray

_DeviceAPI_Close

_DeviceAPI_CreateClassImageList

_DeviceAPI_CreateClassImageListStruct

_DeviceAPI_CreateDeviceDataStruct

_DeviceAPI_DestroyClassImageList

_DeviceAPI_DestroyDeviceInfoList

_DeviceAPI_DeviceArray

_DeviceAPI_EnumDeviceInfo

_DeviceAPI_GetClassCount

_DeviceAPI_GetClassDescription

_DeviceAPI_GetClassDevices

_DeviceAPI_GetClassImageIndex

_DeviceAPI_GetClassImageList

_DeviceAPI_GetClassNameFromGUID

_DeviceAPI_GetDeviceId

_DeviceAPI_GetDeviceRegistryProperty

_DeviceAPI_Open

Reference links:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/SimpleSetup.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms792954.aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc462983.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms792832.aspx

Edited February 2, 2010 by weaponx

[Alek]

freaking awesome

thank you

[7h331337]

this is great thanks

[ZeR0]

I have one error :S

Error 87: The parameter is incorrect

Wat Happend???

[weaponx]

I have one error :S

Error 87: The parameter is incorrect

Wat Happend???

There isn't very detailed error checking yet because i wrote the whole thing today. I will post an update soon that will pinpoint the source of the error.

Edited August 7, 2008 by weaponx

[dmob]

Works beautifully. Excellent stuff.

The people on this forum (and AI) never cease to amaze me.

Edited August 7, 2008 by dalisuit

[MadBoy]

Amazing. I used WMI or Devcon in my device project but this would be far better

[ptrex]

@weaponx

This is a great job.

Very nice !!

Regards,

ptrex

[rasim]

weaponx

Super! Thank you for sharing!

[weaponx]

I appreciate the feedback. I am worried the code in the example may be too complex for some people. There are a lot of pointers to dllstruct's that can't be made inside functions so they have to be declared by the user.

I will try to work in some functions that will allow people to do shortcut tasks, like retrieving an array of all guid's or device names.

Any suggestions are welcome.

[weaponx]

Update:

-Separated example into Simple and Advanced versions, which both produce the same result

-Updated UDF to Alpha v4, all function documentation complete + all error checking in place

Be sure to refresh your browser to get the latest scripts, they like to get stuck in the cache.

Edited August 8, 2008 by weaponx

[spudw2k]

Sux to be me. My company blocks fallenstar.net

[Gigglestick]

Amazing work once again, weaponx!

<- A whole pile o' cookies for this one!

Edited August 8, 2008 by c0deWorm

[weaponx]

I wasn't sure what to get everyone, so I just updated my Device Management API instead.

Merry X-Mas

(Updated to Alpha v5)

Edited April 28, 2009 by weaponx

[MadBoy]

I wasn't sure what to get everyone, so I just updated my Device Management API instead.

Merry X-Mas.

Thanks very much ;-) It's great work! Hopefully some day i get time to update my Device Installer with your api instead of WMI ;-)

[Manko]

Looks great!!!

[Digisoul]

Hello weaponx,

I want to know that if i want Device Instance Id for any specfied Disk Drive then how can i mange your UDF to fullfill my requirement?

e.g:

I install my app in Drive C:\ of SAMSUNG SP0802N & i want the ID for that Disk, and there are 2 Disk Drives in the System, how can i manage to get the accurate Disk and its Instance Id

In your Example it will return the list of all Installed Hardwares.

[netegg]

help! I couldn't use with the error like:

DeviceAPI_GUI_Example.au3(97,25) : ERROR: $TVN_SELCHANGED: undeclared global variable.

Case $TVN_SELCHANGED,

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^

[SandelPerieanu]

hi,

replace with

Case $tvn_selchangeda, $tvn_selchangedw and work

[llewxam]

Sorry for the necropost, but this looks too awesome to not use! When I check DeviceAPI I get

DeviceAPI.au3(684,73) : ERROR: _WinAPI_Check(): undefined function

Did something change in Alpha 5 that nobody mentioned until now?? Commenting out the 2 lines with that function call did allow it to work, but the error checking might be a nice thing to have...

Thanks

Ian